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Publication date: 1 January 2006

John S. Ratcliffe

To reflect, first, that the global changes now washing over the people are probably far more profound than is commonly understood, demanding a new mindset on the part of corporate

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Purpose

To reflect, first, that the global changes now washing over the people are probably far more profound than is commonly understood, demanding a new mindset on the part of corporate organisations. Second, that this cultural transformation engenders a fresh set of challenges facing the corporate world in tackling the inherent complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity which need a futures‐oriented approach to comprehend and capitalize upon societal change. And third, that this organisational metamorphosis will best be understood, planned and managed through a process of foresight or prospective.

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The particular methodology proposed is that of “prospective through scenarios” which has been developed by The Futures Academy at DIT, and the five formative fields, together with their respective key action areas, have been identified from a review of the relevant recent literature and an evaluation of a number of case studies in which the author has been involved.

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Apart from the more detailed findings recounted throughout the text, the main conclusion drawn is that new kinds of corporatism will require the “proactivity” of prospective founded on the “imagineering” of scenarios to shape their future in a changing world.

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In identifying some of the “grand challenges facing corporations in the modern world, the article conceives a mind‐set that accepts” that one can shape the future if one first imagines it.

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Foresight, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1463-6689

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Publication date: 17 April 2007

John S. Ratcliffe

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Property Management, vol. 25 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-7472

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Publication date: 1 September 1999

John S. Ratcliffe

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Property Management, vol. 17 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-7472

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Publication date: 1 December 1993

BTR Silvertown has supplied FLUOROLINE corrosion‐resistant pipework to John Brown Engineers and Constructors Ltd, for the Flue Gas Desulphurisation plant (FGD) at PowerGen's

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BTR Silvertown has supplied FLUOROLINE corrosion‐resistant pipework to John Brown Engineers and Constructors Ltd, for the Flue Gas Desulphurisation plant (FGD) at PowerGen's Ratcliffe‐on‐Soar power station near Nottingham.

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Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, vol. 40 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0003-5599

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Publication date: 1 April 1996

Rick Mullin

Chief Scout executive Jere Ratcliffe is leading America's premier youth organization through its first long‐range plan.

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Chief Scout executive Jere Ratcliffe is leading America's premier youth organization through its first long‐range plan.

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Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 17 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0275-6668

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Publication date: 12 June 2020

That investigation is the root of Presidential Donald Trump's distrust of the Intelligence Community (IC), which comprises 17 agencies and provides vital support to executive…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253235

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Publication date: 3 December 2018

Frederic Lemieux

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Intelligence and State Surveillance in Modern Societies
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-171-1

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Publication date: 15 February 2023

Jenny Cleland, Claire Hutchinson, Candice McBain, Jyoti Khadka, Rachel Milte, Ian Cameron and Julie Ratcliffe

This paper aims to assess the face validity to inform content validity of the Quality of Life – Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC), a new measure for quality assessment and economic…

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This paper aims to assess the face validity to inform content validity of the Quality of Life – Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC), a new measure for quality assessment and economic evaluation in aged care.

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Semi-structured interviews were conducted with older adults (66–100 years) receiving aged care services at home (n = 31) and in residential care (n = 28). Participants provided feedback on draft items to take forward to the next stage of psychometric assessment. Items were removed according to several decision criteria: ambiguity, sensitive wording, not easy to answer and/or least preferred by participants.

Findings

The initial candidate set was reduced from 34 items to 15 items to include in the next stage of the QOL-ACC development alongside the preferred response category. The reduced set reflected the views of older adults, increasing the measure’s acceptability, reliability and relevance.

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Quality of life is a key person-centred quality indicator recommended by the recent Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Responding to this policy reform objective, this study documents a key stage in the development of the QOL-ACC measure, a new measure designed to assess aged care specific quality of life.

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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol. 24 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1471-7794

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Publication date: 1 August 1995

Hamid Tavakolian

Do you use Electronic mail (E‐mail)? Do you know if anyone other than the intended recipient is reading the mail you send? And, what would you do if it fell into the wrong hands…

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Do you use Electronic mail (E‐mail)? Do you know if anyone other than the intended recipient is reading the mail you send? And, what would you do if it fell into the wrong hands? Employees around the world use E‐mail more than a million times a day (Elmer‐Dewitt, 1993). E‐mail is used for a multitude of purposes including telling jokes, discussing confidential matters, or even spreading gossip that could be potentially offensive if overheard by the wrong person. E‐mail is more convenient for most to use rather than having to pick up the phone or wander down a hall to tell someone something. A common misconception many have concerning the use of E‐mail is that it is as private as mail or a phone call (Elmer‐Dewitt, 1993).

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Management Research News, vol. 18 no. 8/9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Publication date: 1 March 1983

F.W. RATCLIFFE

In Britain, university libraries encountered a decline in funding later than in the US, but had never enjoyed support sufficient to permit ambitious acquisitions schemes designed…

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In Britain, university libraries encountered a decline in funding later than in the US, but had never enjoyed support sufficient to permit ambitious acquisitions schemes designed to extend the national information resource which together academic library collections constitute. Hitherto new technology, so far from reducing the output of literature in conventional formats, has merely enlarged the number of the claimants for limited funds: snared cataloguing networks, while offering economies, threaten to erode the position of the scholar‐cataloguer, so posing a threat to parity with academic staff. Never, Ratcliffe argues, has the need been greater for the combined expertise of library staff and faculty in collection‐building for the future.

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Library Review, vol. 32 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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